Feb. 26th, 2005

dira: Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier (Seth'n'Ryan by splash_the_cat)
So I've been playing Tetris (the original!) lately, letting my brain do some random shuffling while I make the shapes on the screen move around. A few days ago I was pondering House's overdetachment from his patients in terms of the way, when you're playing Tetris at levels above 9 or 10, you can't really look at individual pieces - you just have to see what's going on out of the corner of your eye and respond. A lot of times this means mistaking a tri-thingy for a square, because they're both white, but it's the only way to play at that level. I know objectivity seems like a lame excuse for the way House treats patients - but maybe, having been in their shoes - er, drafty gowns - himself, he's no longer able to dissociate himself from them by normal means, and has to be a little more drastic.

Today, playing Tetris, I started thinking about Seth and Ryan, and then I had this horrible realization.

TETRIS CAME OUT THE SAME YEAR SETH COHEN AND RYAN ATWOOD WERE BORN.

Seth probably never played original Tetris in his life. Not with the square-edged controller and the big boxy console. Ryan might've - a secondhand set from somewhere, when he was six or seven - but Seth almost certainly hasn't. I don't know if I can relate to Seth anymore. Jesus.

1987. HE'S JUST A BABY.

I need to go play more Tetris now.

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